Critically ill patients often experience alterations in absorption, distribution, and excretion of fluids and electrolytes. Changes in hormonal. and homeostatic processes and fluid status are also common in intensive. care unit patients.
Prayer Law and Legal Definition Prayer is a term subject to different meanings, but in the legal context, it refers to the specific amount asked for as damages at the end of a complaint or petition. A prayer gives the judge an idea of what is sought, and a defendant who fails to answer may have a default judgment entered against him/her for the amount prayed for.
early 14c., a supplication or prayer, especially to a deity, from Old French peticion request, petition (12c., Modern French pÃ©tition) and directly from Latin petitionem (nominative petitio) a blow, thrust, attack, aim; a seeking, searching, in law a claim, suit, noun of action from past participle stem of petere to make for, go to; attack, assail; seek, strive after; ask for, beg, beseech, request; fetch; derive; demand, require, from PIE root *pet-, also *pete-to rush; to fly ...